Friday, 03 May 2024
Friday, 03 May 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a blistering attack on the opposition parties, accusing them of "running away" from the Lok Sabha during a debate on the no-confidence motion, and said his government has countered the "negativity being spread" by them across the country.
He also accused the opposition of "not being serious" about the discussion on Manipur as "it would have hurt them the most".
The ignominy of being thrown out of his own room, lock stock and barrel, at the Jadavpur University main hostel on a certain midnight before the onset of winter in 2021 continues to haunt Subhajit Ghosh, a post graduate final year student in Bangla. More than the menial jobs he was forced to perform for his seniors in the hostel -- which included fetching food and alcohol at odd hours or else face physical assault -- what was worst for Subhajit was that the torture and threats happened with full knowledge of university authorities who did little to protect him from the onslaught when it was most needed.
“My torture began from the time I stepped into my hostel room back in 2019 when I had joined the department as a fresher. The tasks ranged from fulfilling ‘orders’ of seniors and former students which more often than not stripped me of all self-respect to forceful sleep deprivation and disturbance in studies. One night, they simply kicked me out of my room. Following my repeated complaints before the Dean of Students, both verbal and written, hostel authorities shifted me to a guest room instead of bringing the perpetrators to task,” Subhajit recounted.
The Digital Personal Data Protection bill, passed by Parliament this week, has received President's assent, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.
Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) law aims to protect the privacy of Indian citizens while proposing a penalty of up to Rs 250 crore on entities for misusing or failing to protect digital data of individuals.
The Manipur High Court has asked the state government to find ways to provide mobile internet services to people.
The court was hearing a batch of pleas filed by various parties seeking restoration of mobile internet services which were blocked after violence broke out in the state on May 3.
A day after his suspension from the Lower House, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Saturday alleged that there is a deliberate design by the BJP to throttle the opposition's voice by resorting to various unsavoury instruments.
Chowdhury indicated that he may move the Supreme Court against his suspension from the House and said that consultations in this matter were on. Terming his suspension a "retrogressive step" by the ruling party, he said that he has been placed in a "queer" situation where "I have been hanged and thereafter I will have to face the trial".
All doctors must prescribe generic drugs, failing which they will be penalised and even their license to practice may also be suspended for a period, according to the new regulations issued by the National Medical Commission.
The National Medical Commission (NMC) in its 'Regulations relating to Professional Conduct of Registered Medical Practitioners" also asked doctors to avoid prescribing branded generic drugs.
Infosys Foundation Chairman Sudha Murthy, music maestro Shankar Mahadevan, economist Sanjeev Sanyal and 16 others are part of a new committee constituted by the NCERT to revise textbooks according to the new curriculum, officials said.
The 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC) will be headed by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) chancellor MC Pant and develop textbooks for classes 3 to 12.
Elon Musk on Friday said he spoke with Italy's culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, about planning a cage fight with rival tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg in Italy.
Musk said on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that he and Sangiuliano had agreed on an "epic location" for the fight, without specifying where. "Everything in camera frame will be ancient Rome, so nothing modern at all," Musk wrote.
Senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was on Saturday picked as Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister to govern the cash-strapped country and oversee general elections later this year.
Outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Leader of Opposition Raja Riaz finalised his name after two rounds of deliberations. Kakar, a lawmaker belonging to Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), will lead a caretaker government until fresh election is held later this year.
Rescuers on Saturday pulled out two more bodies from the debris of the landslide which swept away three shops in Gaurikund on the way to Kedarnath on August 4, an official said.
The death toll in the tragedy has risen to seven while 16 people are still missing, Rudraprayag Disaster Management Officer Nandan Singh Rajwar said. The bodies were identified as 25-year-old woman Anita Bohra and eight-year-old boy Jatil, the official said.
